The nude alone is well dressed

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.